02714cam a2200337 i 4500 514396863 TxAuBib 20211102120000.0 210830s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2021021948 9780063064881 HRD 27.99 006306488X HRD 27.99 TxAuBib rda Reich, Robert B, 1946-, (Robert Bernard.) System error [BOOK] : where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot / Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. xxxii, 319 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-304) and index. In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It doesn’t need to be this way. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors—a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)—reveal how we can hold that power to account. Provided by publisher. 20211102. High technology industries Social aspects. Online social networks Social aspects. Information society. Social responsibility of business. Sahami, Mehran, author. Weinstein, Jeremy M., author.